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Meeting to review
energy situation |
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May 2012: A meeting was held at
Aiwan-e-Sadr today with President Asif
Ali Zardari in chair to review the
energy situation in the country. Those
who attended the meeting included among
others Dr. Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, Federal
Minister for Finance, Syed Naveed Qamar,
Minister for Water and Power, Dr. Asim
Hussain, Federal Minister for Petroleum
& Natural Resources, Federal Secretaries
of concerned ministries and other
officials of relevant departments
besides Spokesperson to the President.
Briefing
about the meeting, Spokesperson to the
President Senator Farhatullah Babar said
that the meeting reviewed current energy
situation in the country. Syed Naveed
Qamar, Federal Minister for Water &
Power, while briefing the meeting about
the power generation informed that there
was no unscheduled load shedding in the
country. Senator Babar said that the
President directed that a special
control room be set up in Ministry of
Water & Power which should display on
the screen complete and updated
information about the power generation
from different power plants,
distribution to various distribution
companies and areas subjected to load
shedding. He also directed that the same
system be replicated in the Presidency
so that a special unit in his office
could also monitor the situation with
regards to energy generation, supply and
distribution and load shedding.
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PM sentencing
against the law, Aitzaz |
 Prime
Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s counsel in
the contempt of court case, Barrister
Aitzaz Ahsan, on Tuesday said that the
prime minister’s sentencing was against
the law, DawnNews reported.
Speaking to
media representatives, Ahsan said the
premier could not have been sentenced in
the absence of a detailed verdict. He said
short orders were not issued in criminal
cases and that the prime minister’s
sentencing was against the law.
Ahsan said an
appeal would be filed challenging the
Supreme Court’s verdict against the
premier. He further said that objections
to the judgment were based on
constitutional and legal grounds.
Saying “we
do not accept the verdict” of April 26,
the counsel reiterated that President Asif
Ali Zardari enjoyed immunity from
prosecution in Pakistan and abroad.
Ahsan moreover
said that the prime minister was sentenced
in violation of Article 10-A of the
Constitution. The counsel urged that it
was the duty of all Pakistani citizens to
abide by the laws and the Constitution of
the country.
“The prime
minister has a number of options to choose
from, including one of filing an appeal
challenging the verdict,” Ahsan said.
Regarding the appeal, the counsel said
that the judges who convicted the prime
minister should not hear it. Moreover, on
the role of Speaker National Assembly in
the process of a possible disqualification
of the premier, Ahsan said the speaker was
given the authority by the Constitution
and not the Supreme Court. He said it was
up to the speaker’s discretion whether or
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People’s support a
clear message for those dreaming decline of PPP: Kaira |
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MALIKWAL, May 15 (APP): Minister for
Information and Broadcasting, Qamar
Zaman Kaira on Tuesday said that
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) was living
in hearts of people like a legacy as
their successive support has showed a
clear message for those who were
dreaming the decline of PPP. Addressing
public meetings at Malikwal and Pind
Dadan Khan, he said people of Pakistan
has reposed confidence on PPP during
Giglit Baltistan (GB), Azad Jammu
Kashmir and bye-elections in the country
and made its candidates successful.
Minister for Railways, Ghulam Ahmad
Bilour and Minister for Capital
Administration and Development Division
(CADD), Nazar Muhammad Gondal also
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PPP issues
timeline of pro-Gilani rallies |
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LAHORE: The
PPP Punjab and Lahore chapters have
announced rallies in favour of Prime
Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani. The
campaign would start from the Lawyers
Convention, which is going to be held on
May 10, while the party would also hold
a motorcycle rally on May 11 in Lahore,
said PPP Punjab President Imtiaz Safdar
Warraich at a press conference on
Tuesday. He said the PPP would hold a
rally from Tollinton Market, The Mall,
to Data Darbar on May 13. The PPP’s
provincial chapter will hold a meeting
of its general house in which the prime
minister will also participate. Later,
the party would hold a public meeting in
Rawalpindi on May 17. It will also hold
a rally and a public meeting in Kasur on
May 19. Rallies and public meetings will
also be arranged in Sialkot, Mandi
Bahauddin, Bhakkar, Khushab and Sargodha
in the last week of May. |
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Aitzaz Ahsan to
challenge order |
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Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan said
on Tuesday that he would file an appeal in
the Supreme Court against the conviction
of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in
the contempt case.
“After
receiving the detailed judgment of the
Supreme Court I am able to file the
appeal,” he said in a TV programme. He
said there were several aspects he would
like to raise in the review petition. Mr
Ahsan said he had raised some questions
over the formation of the bench which
decided the case, but the apex court had
invoked Article 10-A of the Constitution
and turned down his objections.
PPP leader
Fauzia Wahab told Dawn that Prime Minister
Gilani would not step down and will face
the court by filing the review petition.
“There is no chance of any change because
the party has decided that he will
continue to serve,” she said. TheDAWN |
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No re-engagement
without apology, President Zardari tells US |
 Pakistan
and the United States, the President said,
share many important areas where there was
convergence of mutual interests. He said
that most notable among those were the
goals of stability and peace in
Afghanistan and the complete defeat of Al-Qaeda.
The President said that Pakistan has
always maintained that drone attacks were
highly counter productive in the war
against militants as it inflamed public
sentiments due to innocent civilian
casualties. He said that both the sides
should consider setting up a framework of
mechanism to find a mutually acceptable
alternatives.
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PPP senior
leadership and coalition partners meet |
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 The
meeting expressed dismay that an elected
Prime Minister of the country had been
sentenced for upholding the Constitution
and supremacy of the Parliament. It also
noted with disappointment that while no
dictator had been punished for suspension
and abrogation of the Constitution a
democratically and unanimously elected
Prime Minister had been sentenced for
upholding the Constitution. It expressed
concern over attempts to dismiss an
elected government and an elected Prime
Minister
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 Ask Faryal
Talpur about the most difficult phase of
her life and she doesn’t come out with a
reply. She’s never considered anything
difficult, she says. Very few people have
the ability to make a statement like that
in a self-effacing manner. The PPP
women-wing president is one of them. Prod
a little more, and it’s clear she has seen
her share of tough times in politics. Back
in 1997, her husband, brother and father
were all in jail. This was when she
contested an election for the first time.
“I had no intention or aptitude to join
politics. But my father wrote me a letter
from jail, one that changed Read
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Welcome to
Pakistan Peoples Party |
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 The
Pakistan Peoples Party was launched at its
founding convention held in Lahore on Nov
30 - Dec 1, 1967. At the same meeting, Zulfikar Ali
Bhutto was elected as its Chairman. Among the express
goals for which the Party was formed were the
establishment of an egalitarian democracy and the
application of socialistic ideas to realize economic and
social justice. A more immediate task was to struggle
against the hated military dictatorship at the height of
its power when the PPP was formed. The Party
also promised the elimination of feudalism in accordance
with the
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Begum Nusrat Bhutto |
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Begum
Nusrat Bhutto was born on 23 March 1929, former first
lady of Pakistan, widow of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Shaheed
and mother of Ms Sanam Bhutto, Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto
Shaheed, Mir Murtaza Bhutto Shaheed and Mir Shahnawaz
Bhutto Shaheed. Nusrat met Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in
Karachi where they got married on September 8, 1951. As
first lady from 1973-1977, Nusrat Bhutto functioned as a
political hostess and accompanied her husband on a
number of overseas visits. In 1979,
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Mohtarma Benazir
Bhutto Shaheed |
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 Political
activist with the PPP, 1977-84; repeatedly imprisoned
and kept under house arrest by the Pakistani government;
political exile in London, England, 1984 - 86; returned to
Pakistan in April, 1986; Pakistan co-chair, beginning in
1986; After elections held November 1988, invited to
form the government, became Prime Minister in 1988 but
her government was illegally dismissed in August 1990.
She again came to power after her Party won a majority
in elections held in October 1993. Her government was
once again dismissed illegally in November 1996. Since
then PPP under her leadership has been subjected to
political persecution first by
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The Chairman - PPP |
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 “My
mother used to say: Democracy is the best revenge”,
Bilawal said this in a firm tone when he was made the
Chairperson of “Pakistan Peoples’ Party”, after her mother
Ms. Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in Rawalpindi on 27th
December, 2007. ‘Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’ is the eldest of
the three children of former Prime Minister of Pakistan
Benazir Bhutto. He was born on 21st September 1988. He
expressed his desire for the country to become democratic
as 'the founding father intended it to be' and championed
his parents' struggle.
President Asif Ali Zardari announced that PPP Chairman
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will take up political
responsibility upon returning from the UK in September
2011. |
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The Co-Chairman - PPP |
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 Mr.
Zardari was elected Senator in 1997 and served in that
capacity until the dissolution of the Senate following the
military coup of 1999. He was elected Co-Chairman of the
Pakistan Peoples Party in January 2008 following the
assassination of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. Mr.
Zardari's political career spans two decades spent working
closely with Shaheed Benazir Bhutto. During this period he
helped formulate policies that expanded the freedom of the
media, revolutionized telecommunications and opened
Pakistan for foreign direct investment. During Shaheed
Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto's first term in office CNN and BBC
were allowed broadcasting rights in Pakistan and mobile
telephone services introduced at Mr Zardari's initiative.
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War in
Afghanistan is destabilising Pakistan: President
Zardari |
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President Asif
Zardari's Address to Joint Session
March 17, 2012 |
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Pakistan did its part
By Mr. Asif Ali
Zardari - President of Pakistan
The
Washington Post: May 3, 2011 |
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Dialogue,
Deterrence, Development and democracy is the only
roadmap to
peace-says PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari |
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Talk to, not at, Pakistan
By Mr. Asif Ali Zardari - President of Pakistan |
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Double trouble in Afghanistan
Editorial, Published: October
5, 2011 |
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